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Anyone else hate Power Rangers?
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SigmasonicX
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Well, the more recent series made by Saban have intentionally been 90's in order to bring in the nostalgia crowd.
By the way, I suppose it's worth bringing up Linkara's History of Power Rangers videos, where he goes way in depth on every series.
As for me, I watched all the way through Time Force, then watched RPM after it finished.
Corleth the Fey
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I watched some Power Rangers in space and Lost Galaxy recently and had a great time. This is coming from someone who was in his twenties in the 90's.
That Astro bad girl was something.
That Astro bad girl was something.
SomedayTheFire
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That one where it was set in the future was great
Gravy Boat
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It has colourful super heroes in suits, robots dinosaurs that fuse together to make a giant robot with a sword, a badass the tune that plays when shit gets real and plot lines that are easy to follow. It's really not difficult to understand why it's popular among young kids, especially boys. I loved it growing up. I sure as hell wasn't watching it to notice how bad the effects were, I was like 6.
I love it, not every season but the show as a whole is fun, you just have to embrace the cheese. It's people in colored spandex suits fighting rubber monsters, that's awesome!
The storylines aren't bad either in some seasons, it's not Breaking Bad but it doesn't try to be.
Of course not every season is good, if your son made you watch Samurai/Super Samurai or Megaforce/Super Megaforce ... yikes, those are bad and even most Power Rangers fans will agree with that.
Dino Charge on the other hand is pretty good.
If you watch in Netflix check out Power Rangers Ninja Storm, it doesn't take itself seriously at all, it's really funny.
I hope after Dino Charge is finished they adapt ToQger, it had an orange sixth ranger and a color change gimmick, many people don't care for that but I thought it was great that we got all kinds of different color combinations like a female red and a male pink for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEFSph131GM
The storylines aren't bad either in some seasons, it's not Breaking Bad but it doesn't try to be.
Of course not every season is good, if your son made you watch Samurai/Super Samurai or Megaforce/Super Megaforce ... yikes, those are bad and even most Power Rangers fans will agree with that.
Dino Charge on the other hand is pretty good.
If you watch in Netflix check out Power Rangers Ninja Storm, it doesn't take itself seriously at all, it's really funny.
I hope after Dino Charge is finished they adapt ToQger, it had an orange sixth ranger and a color change gimmick, many people don't care for that but I thought it was great that we got all kinds of different color combinations like a female red and a male pink for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEFSph131GM
InfiniteBento
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I loved it as a kid but watching it as an adult makes me cringe.
I can still enjoy the cheesiness of this movie though:
RPM, In Space, and possibly MegaForce would like a word with you.
I havent kept up that far honestly but I did watch a lot of the Japanese Series that spawned the original Power Rangers and actually really liked the way it was presented and how the stories were written, seemed aimed more at teens than earlier.
IsntChrisL
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I was about 6 when the first PR show hit, so I loved it. If you never watched it when you were young, you probably wouldn't like it, because you have a fully developed brain. But as a dumb kid, it was great.
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I can get behind the Selfie Rangers.
half a moon
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I like mmpr. Not the new stuff.
SolVanderlyn
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Being into this series is one of the highlights of my life. It has this an appealing dynamic between its characters, action scenes, character specific abilities, and a serialized plot that also works on an episodic basis. It's almost objectively appealing to kids. Everyone I knew was into it. You could go to school and talk about Power Rangers and be almost 100% certain that the person would share your enthusiasm for it.The original series was amazing for the time.
Media targeted towards youth has that universal appeal. What a wonderful age to be.
SimpleGamer
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I use to love them as a kid but now they just seem like rehashes of the ones I watched when I was young.
Haloid1177
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Time Force was weirdly adult for the time, to the point where there were talks about it getting some sort of prime time second season. Probably my favorite season.
Uzumaki Goku
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You kinda had to be there.
It's a show about people dressing up in costumes and fighting monsters, you can't take it seriously if you want to enjoy it lol. It's like watching a dumb action movie; you're there to have fun, not to watch a masterpiece.
If I remember right he also has a Gun-Guitar and his morpher is a fake cheeseburger.
If I remember right he also has a Gun-Guitar and his morpher is a fake cheeseburger.
Uzumaki Goku
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In Space and Time Force are actually very good seasons with strong character writing. So Power Rangers did evolve as time went on.
Uzumaki Goku
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I actually rewatched some episodes of MMPR, well I can't say that it's a GOOD show, I can't deny I kinda enjoy the cheesy charm of it.
Deadly Joker
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I loved it as a kid but watching it as an adult makes me cringe.
I can still enjoy the cheesiness of this movie though:
I watched that movie again for the first time in like 10 years. I was drunk, but I found the whole movie fun and hilarious at same time. Gotta love nostalgia.
30yearsofhurt
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Amy Jo Johnson was my top girl in the mid-90s.
SonicMegaDrive
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I have a younger brother who was really into it when it first came out in 1993. I definitely turned my nose up at it then.
Now that we're both well into our 30's, we both have an appreciation for it's low budget cheesiness. We recently watched a bunch of the original Japanese version of the show, which is just as cheesy but more coherent in it's own weird logic than the American one.
Plus the toys were always pretty damn cool.
Now that we're both well into our 30's, we both have an appreciation for it's low budget cheesiness. We recently watched a bunch of the original Japanese version of the show, which is just as cheesy but more coherent in it's own weird logic than the American one.
Plus the toys were always pretty damn cool.
Princess Viola
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it's funny you say that because Sentai is aimed at like 5 year olds but Power Rangers is aimed at like 8-10 year olds.
acheron_xl
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I hated them when they came out because I was 15 and thought it looked lame. Basically the same way I felt about Hercules and Xena.
DontBeThatGuy
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Loved that shit. The show, the movies, the video games. But lets be real here, it's not good by any stretch of the imagination.
Oh yeah, Time Force was the only one to have a serious, intimidating villain.
Unmasked Ferret
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Yeah man, I was all about the Beetleborgs as a kid.
I liked Power Rangers up until the ninja one. I saw a little of SPD but didn't watch it consistently. But man the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers with Tommy as the Green Ranger with the fucking Dragonzord was amazing.
I liked Power Rangers up until the ninja one. I saw a little of SPD but didn't watch it consistently. But man the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers with Tommy as the Green Ranger with the fucking Dragonzord was amazing.
Nah, it has been mostly New Zealand actors for a while now, considering they are producing the show in New Zealand.
Actually of the latest seasons Rangers (nine in total), only three are from New Zealand. I just checked, only the Black Ranger, the Graphite Ranger, and the first Purple Ranger are from NZ.
The Blue Ranger is from Indonesia, the Gold Ranger is from Brazil, and the rest from the US.
Night Terror
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Well, they're a kids show.
But it's a shame about costume quality, because I like a lot of those designs:
But it's a shame about costume quality, because I like a lot of those designs:
Baron von Loathsome
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My best friend growing up was into Mighty Morphin, but it never grabbed me personally.
Nah I don't hate it at all. Love the show even now with how campy it is and the rare times it breeds some cool ideas. Plus I have a ton of respect for the actors after meeting them. Met two of my best friends through that fandom that have stuck with me for years so it has a place with me.
But there are also all the supporting actors.
I remember I stopped watching after Power Rangers In Space when I was a kid and then several years later I caught the newest one on TV one morning. It was Power Rangers SPD, and I actually liked it quite a bit more than anything that was between it and in space.
That was 10 years ago so my memory is probably fuzzy on its quality.
That was 10 years ago so my memory is probably fuzzy on its quality.
radios shipping overview
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Never liked them. I think I missed the age window by a few years.
Etrian Oddity
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A big part of why Power Rangers rocked back in the day was the Metal Gear Rising-like buttrock. Cheesy, shameless, and totally awesome in battle.
Co-co-co-COMBAT!!!!!
Seriously, it was a genius move to insert background music like that over the original Sentai footage. It completely changed the scenes.
Co-co-co-COMBAT!!!!!
Seriously, it was a genius move to insert background music like that over the original Sentai footage. It completely changed the scenes.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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I saw one episode when I was three or four, and even then my first thought was "this is dumb" and I've never watched it since.
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